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LLENTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA, 

the metropolis of the Lehigh Valley 
and the centre of the great cement belt 
of eastern Pennsylvania, located nmety 
miles west of New York City, fifty- 
seven miles north of Philadelphia and thirty miles 

south of the anthracite coal fields. 

Founded in 1 762, by Chief Justice William Allen. 

Constituted a borough, March 18, 1811. 

Became the county seat of Lehigh, March 6, 1812. 

Incorporated as a city, March 15, 1867. 

Population m 1 908, 5 1 ,000. 

Population within a radius oi gix miles, 1 1 0,000. 



Copyright. 1908. 

by the 

Chamber of Commerce, 

Allentown. Pa. 





Central Fire and Police Station. Court House. Group of Regular Mounted 

Police. Soldiers* and Sailors' Monument. County Jail, 

Post-office Building. 

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AilenLown is the centre of fojr great railroiJ; ; viz., the Lehigh Valley, the Central 

Railroad of New Jersey, the Readme and the Pcrkiomen. 

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BiU of Sceneiy. Allentovvn is surrounded by any number of beautiful views, 

of w filch ihe above are a few specimens. 

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Industrial Establishments, employing thousands of men, showing also the largest 
lumber plant under one roo( in America. 

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Beautiful Vistas. The Big Rocks and scenes along the Lehigh Canal, the 

Lehigh River and the Little Lehigh River. 

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Industrial. Allenlown people aic proverbially thrifty, peaceable, orderly and 

law-abiding. Labor troubles and disorders o( whatever character 

ors practically unknown in lh:3 city. 




Allenlown's Parks. A few views indicative o( (he beauties o( Dorney Park and 
Central Park. 






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Allentown has nearly six hundred diversified industries, embracing among others iron, 

silk, fuiniture, shoes, cigar, hosiery, dyeing, automobile, cemcDt 

block, brick, clothing, lumber. 

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Duck Farm. Park View. Crystal Spring Basin and Pumping Station. New Stale 
Bridge. Schanlz's Spring Basin (City's Water Supply). 




Cement. Eighteen cement mills are within a radius of six miles, employing 12,000 

men. Output lor 1906, 13,000,000 barrels, about 38 per cent, of the 

total product of the United Stales. 

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The Great Alientown Fair. The greatest county fair in the United Slates, 

attended by over 200,000 people annually, its half-nnile 

track holds the world's records lor pacing and 

trotting to sulky and wagon. 

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Silk Mills. Allentown is ihe second largest silk centre in Pennsylvania, with 

fifteen firms, nineteen mills, over 5,000 employees and having an 

annual output ot about $10,000,000.00 

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Street Scenes in Business Section. Allentown has an area of 3.98 square 

miles, with 58.82 miles of streets, of which 10.48 miles are 

asphalted, and 8.84 miles macadamized. 

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Y. M. C. A. Ailentown College for Women. Allentown Hospital. 

New Homeopalhic State Asylum (or the Insane. 

Phoebe Deaconess Home. 

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Street Scenes in Residential Section. Allentown has 12,500 buildings. A notable 

fad is that over 90 per cent, of the real estate, improvements 

and vi'ealth is owned by Allentown citizens. 

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Dam on Lehigh River near 5 

Railroad station. The 

fertile Saucon Val 

Lehigh Mou 

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istward from the Lehigh Valley 
town. Looking over the 
on the crest of the 
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Lyric Theatre. Orpheum Theatre. Bank Buildings. Allentown has three National 

Banks and three Trust Companies, whose combined capital is $2,250,000 ; 

deposits and holdings. $9,236,512.10; assets. $14,537,857.46; 

surplus fund and undivided profits, $1,685,733.96. 

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Residential Street Scenes. Views along sections of Sixteenth, Fourth, 
Fifteenth and Fulton Streets. 



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Representative Business Blocks. Allenlown is ihe business centre for a 

wide and rich agricultural, manufacturing and 

mining section. 

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Typical Allentown Homes. Allenlown is a city of beautiful tiomes. Tlie 

climate is deliglilful and its fiealth rate averages above tfiat of 

any other city in Pennsylvania. 

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Leading Business Blocks. Allentown is the centre of three great trolley syslemi, 

touching every important city, town and village within a radius 

of thirty-six miles, also extending to the city of 

Philadelphia. 

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Ideal Residences. Allentown is the cleanest and best built city o( its size in the United 

Slates, and its homes compare favorably with those ot any other city. 

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Striking Business Blocks. The assessed valuation of property in Allentown is 

$30,210,834.00, with a market value of over $45,000,000.00. 

Its tax rate is lower than that of any other city 

in the State. 

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Handsome Homes. One o( Allentown's principal atlractions is its large, unfailing 

supply ol absolutely pure spring water from Schantz's Spring. 

five miles west of llie city. 




Muhlenberg College. President's Home. Allentown Preparatory School. Administration 

Building. Laboratory. Berks-Rhoads Hal! (Dormitory). Allentown also 

has a College for Women, two commercial and several music 

and select schools. 

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Ideal School Houses. Allentown has seventeen pubhc school buildings end two 

parochial schools. The district has 149 teachers and 6.25 1 pupils, 

with a ten months' school term. 

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Churches. Allenlown has forly-lhree churches, representing nearly every rehgious 

denomination in the world. 

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Churches. The architecture of the edifices is strikingly beautiful, and they 

are unsurpaised by any other city of like proportions. 

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Holels. Allentown has a number of large and beautiful fioteU for tfie 

accommodation of permanent and transient guests, of wliich 

tfie above is a representative group. 

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Fraternal Order o( Eagles. B. P. O. Elks. Lehigh Saengerbund. 

Livingston Club. Temperance Hall. Young Men's Hall. 

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Fire Engine Houses. Ailentown has a remarkably efficient, pari paid and volunteer 

fire department, divided into nine companies, wrth 947 members, six 

steam engines, two chemical engines, two hook and 

ladder trucks and six hose wagons, 

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Scene on Hamilton Street. Scene on North Sixth Street. Press Buildings. Allenlown 
has five daily newspapers.' and one English and three German weeklies. 

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